Letters -- Published Nov. 8, 2013

Friday

Nov 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM

If Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were in California, we would start a recall on him. Cruz is wasting hard-working Americans' money in our Senate. It was immoral for Cruz and the other Republicans to shut down government to keep Americans from getting affordable health care.

If Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were in California, we would start a recall on him. Cruz is wasting hard-working Americans' money in our Senate. It was immoral for Cruz and the other Republicans to shut down government to keep Americans from getting affordable health care.

America is tired of the Republicans' hating President Barack Obama so much that they want to keep 50 million Americans from being able to afford health care.

When the health care reform law becomes fully operational it will bring the cost of America's health care down.

In time, we can make changes and put into effect the single-payer Medicare-for-all and go to a publicly funded health care system and do away with the for-profit insurance companies, which is the reason Americans' health care system is the costliest in the world.

Ted Cruz is all about keeping Americans from getting affordable health care.

Arne Aasen

Stockton

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: "Never in the history of America have so many been insulted, violated, and depreciated by so few."

I'm speaking of the totally unnecessary, punitive and childish closing of our military monuments by President Barack Obama and Senate Leader Harry Reid during the government shutdown.

Every veteran should be enraged at the selfish disregard these men showed for us who have paved the way for them to serve freely, honestly and patriotically in our great country. I didn't fight in World War II against tyranny to face it here at home.

These men and their lemmings have, in lock step, refused every reasonable offer to fund a full range of government agencies and open them up, but grasping selfishness prevailed. In essence, it was "my way or no way."

Americans in the future are unlikely to respond, as we did, to a world fascist threat knowing they will be treated as dirt by closing their monuments and memorial facilities for selfish reasons.

Let's not play games on the graves or our former servicemen!

Walter W. Sturdivan

Stockton

To many others, Americans are not ourselves, but performers in their lives cast from a part we do not even know that we are playing.

In several parts of the world, the reality is that stronger and yet even stronger demands for money are being made on the U.S. These are not merely polite requests, fellow taxpayers, they are non-blinking eyeball-to-eyeball demands.

Why do these people think that we owe them a living? It is not a question of just our strength or wealth that drives many Britons, French and German bonkers. It is just their realization of just how much they depend on us.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party's demonization of the wealthy won't pass muster as long as President Barack Obama shares the stage with Hollywood and billionaires he deems are acceptable.

And it is not only people who are overseas who are sometimes upset with the U.S. There are some people south of the border who think that the Southwest - Texas, New Mexico and Arizona - should still belong to them.

Here is an idea: Offer to return these states to Mexico in the same condition we found them - a cactus-choked expanse of desert.